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> Apple does all their driver and API development in house. Supporting Vulkan would mean a lot more effort on their part. Unlike windows and Linux where support
by bangonkeyboard 7y ago
> Apple does all their driver and API development in house. Supporting Vulkan would mean a lot more effort on their part. Unlike windows and Linux where support is handled by the GPU vendor instead.
How does this jibe with your position that Apple isn't performing lock-in, particularly when Apple is now specifically refusing to approve previously-available Nvidia drivers and thereby preventing them from being used in external GPUs for Macs?
- dagmx 7y agoThe details of that aren't public other than both companies want control of the driver stack and neither is willing to budge. The driver breakage happened between major operating system versions that had significant graphics systems overhauls so would not be compatible as is. I don't classify that as lock in. It's an unfortunate side effect of business dealings between two immovable companies. However apple does work with AMD and Intel GPUs, and still allow AMD external GPUs.